Days in Paradise

By: Lexxie Sparrow

Summery: Glimpses into the lives of Sean and Ellie after she moved in with him in season 4.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. If I did I wouldn't be writing this for fanfiction it'd be real.

Daddy to a Ferret

She woke up sometime in the middle of the night and went into the small kitchen to grab a drink of water. It was nice to not find empty vodka bottles laying on the table or glass shattered on the floor. This was now the third night she had stayed here. The second night that it was intentional.

After the fire she had convinced her mother to let her stay at her friend's house instead of moving in with her aunt. Some how though she had found out that she hadn't been staying at her friend's, that she had instead been staying with her boyfriend instead.

Her mother had forced her to come home after crashing the party her friends had thrown for the both of them. Thankfully she hadn't hit Sean that hard when she smacked him. When they got back to the half burn house she had revealed the scars from her cutting her mother reluctantly let her come back to stay.

She rinsed out her cup before she noticed the empty ferret cage on the table. She raised an eyebrow. She had put Bueller in there for the night right before they had gone to bed.

She looked all around while quietly calling his name hoping he would come scurring in and that she didn't wake up her boyfriend who was sound asleep on the couch.

She walked into the room and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw where her pet ferret was. There laying on top of her sleeping boyfriend's chest was Bueller his little eyes opened wide staring right at her. She smiled at the sight of her two boys.

"Hey little B are you keeping Daddy company?" she whispered as she rubbed the top of his head. She slipped her hand underneath his belly and slowly lifted him off of Sean's chest.

"Did you just call me Daddy to a ferret?" Sean asked sleepily as he opened his eyes to see his girlfriend standing next to him.

Ellie raised an eyebrow at him. "So what if I did? He is our baby." she said grinning down at him as she held Bueller in her arms.

"He's our pet not our kid. Now put him back." he said pouting.

"So I take it you got him out of his cage?" Ellie said sitting down on the couch after Sean had moved his feet.

Sean shrugged. "He seemed lonely in there."

"You called him a weasel. You're not a weasel are you little B." she said as she let him scury his way back onto his spot on Sean's chest. "Come on he's not the only one that seems lonely out here."

Sean sat up on the couch. "Are you sure El?"

She grabbed him by the hand. "I'm sure." she said kissing him softly on the lips before going back into the bedroom. "Come on Bueller you can sleep on Daddy's chest in here."

Sean shook his head as the ferret jumped off the couch and followed her into the room. "He's not our baby El!" he said as he stood up following his girlfriend and their furry little pet into their bedroom. The couple and their pet ferret all slept contently in the bed that night as a happy little family.

TBC...